Open AccessDecomposition English And Mandailing Prefixes: A Contrastive Study
Author(s) -
Muhammad Hasyimsyah Batubara,
Vidya Dwi Amalia Zati,
Sani Susanti
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
asian social science and humanities research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2636-9109
DOI - 10.37698/ashrej.v3i2.81
Subject(s) - prefix , linguistics , english language , computer science , natural language processing , mathematics , philosophy
This study deals with the decomposition analysis of prefixes in English and Mandailing Natal Language. The purpose is to find out the similarities and differences of prefixes in both languages. The data of this research were obtained by conducting library research and field research. The data were analyzed and compared to find out the similarities and differences. The findings indicated that there are some of them only found in one language. There are types of the prefix in English (e.g., un-, hyper-, under-, in-, mis-, super-, over-, pre-, inter-). In Mandailing Natal Language, there is the prefix (e.g., ma-, pa-, tar-, tarpa-, sa- and sasa-, um-). Both English and Mandailing Natal language can be found prefixes which are used to indicate a positive degree that is not found in English. There are some similarities and differences between prefixes in English and Mandailing Natal language.